JOURNAL 



OF 



ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



OFFICIAL ORGAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS 



Vol. 3 AUGUST, 1910 No. 4 



THE MAKEUP AND VALUE OF EXHIBITS AT STATE 

 AND COUNTY FAIRS 



By H. A. GossARi). Wooster, Ohio 



The Ohio Experiment Station has probably tested the value and 

 scope of fair exhibits as an educational agency as thoroughly as any 

 agricultural institution of its kind in the country and far more thor- 

 oughly than most. The Station made an exhibit at the Cotton States 

 Exposition in New Orleans in 1884, sending a collection of grasses. 

 A more representative exhibition was given at the World's Fair at 

 Chicago in 1893, several departments being represented. Another 

 general and representative exhibit was made at the Paris Exposition. 

 Exhibits seem to have been made at all the State Fairs since the 

 Station was organized. The first exhibit, made at a' county fair, was 

 at Wooster in 1891. Exhibits were furnished to various county fairs 

 according to the accidents of circumstances until 1905, in which year 

 the general policy of making exhibits at the county fairs under an 

 organized system was adopted.^ During that year an exhibit was 

 made at seven county fairs. The exhibit was shown at six fairs in 

 1906, at seven in 1907 and at eight in 1908. In 1909 there were two 

 sets of exhibits, the one being practically a duplicate of the other, 

 and it was therefore possible to show in two different counties on the 

 same set of dates. Twenty fairs were visited this season, covering a 

 total railroad mileage of 2108 miles. 



In the beginning of the exhibition work, the displays were small 

 and consisted of such products as might have been shown by any 



'■ For fuller information regarding the exhibition work of the Ohio Station 

 see Circular No. 101. 



